Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
If you've never eaten while crying you don't know what life tastes like.
It all has to come from inside, though, I guess.
Music is a safe kind of high.
Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.
Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
Knowledge is speaking, Wisdom is listening.
The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye. The story of love is Hello and Goodbye. Until we meet again.......
Knowledge is speaking, Wisdom is listening.
I try all night to play a pretty note.
Those times I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. We all burn things we love. I love my guitar.
All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.
If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.
It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honour or distinction than that.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.